Sunday
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Staff / Welcome and Introduction from the Chairs
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Keynote Session: Catecholamine Mechanisms Across Circuits and Behavior
7:40 pm - 7:50 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:50 pm - 8:30 pm
"Craving and Control: How Brain Circuits Shape Addiction Risk"
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm
Discussion
8:40 pm - 9:20 pm
"Brain Reward Signals for Natural and Drug Reinforcers"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Catecholamine Functions in Innate and Learned Behaviors
9:00 am - 9:20 am
"Locus Coeruleus Norepinephrine Neuron Modulation of Cortical Taste Processing"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
"A Thalamostriatal Circuit Signals the Value of Avoidance Actions via Cholinergic Mechanisms"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am
"Essential Sleep Features for Brain Remodeling"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:20 am
"Norepinephrine Regulates Mutual Social Interactions"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:50 am
"Is Love Blind: Dopamine Biases Threat Perception During Mating Proximity"
11:50 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm
"Dopaminergic Control of Punishment-Resistant Reward-Seeking"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Catecholamine Systems in Neurodegeneration and Aging
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
"Astrocyte Contributions to GABAergic Abnormalities in Huntington’s Disease"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm
"Compensatory Locus Coeruleus Hyperactivity Drives Behavioral Symptoms in Prodromal Alzheimer's Disease"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm
"Unraveling the Role of the Dorsal Raphe Nucleus in Anxiety and Depression Comorbidity Within Parkinson's Disease"
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm
"Mechanisms Underlying Selective Neuronal Pathogenesis in Huntington’s Disease"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Catecholamine Circuits and Cell Types Across the Lifespan
9:00 am - 9:05 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:05 am - 9:25 am
"A Developmental View of Locus Coeruleus Heterogeneity"
9:25 am - 9:35 am
Discussion
9:35 am - 9:55 am
"The Weight of Histones in Shaping Lifelong Susceptibility to Stress"
9:55 am - 10:05 am
Discussion
10:05 am - 10:25 am
"Dissecting Dopamine Neuron Connectivity Using Novel Mouse Genetics Tools"
10:25 am - 10:35 am
Discussion
10:35 am - 11:10 am
Coffee Break
11:10 am - 11:30 am
"Molecular Mechanism of Targeting the Dopamine Transporter by Selective Autophagy"
11:30 am - 11:40 am
Discussion
11:40 am - 12:00 pm
"Making Dopamine Connections in Adolescence"
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm
Discussion
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Technologies to Probe Catecholamine Systems
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:40 pm - 8:00 pm
"Spatially-Resolved Molecular Approaches for Defining Cellular Heterogeneity Across the Mesolimbic Dopamine System in the Human Brain"
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm
"Mapping Active Cells and Synaptic Dynamics"
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm
Discussion
8:40 pm - 9:00 pm
"Spying on Neuromodulator Dynamics in vivo by Constructing Multi-Color GRAB Sensors"
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Catecholamine Circuits in Psychiatric and Addiction Behaviors
9:00 am - 9:20 am
"Interactions Between Striatal Dopamine and Acetylcholine in Hallucination-Like Perception"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
"The Brain Dopamine System in Opioid Use Disorder Recovery"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am
"Epigenetic Reprogramming Alters Striatal Gene Responses in Cocaine Addiction"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:20 am
"Predicting Stress-Induced Anhedonia from Cortical Dynamics and Facial Expression"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:50 am
"Opioid Induced Plasticity and Behavior in Noradrenergic Systems"
11:50 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm
"Dopamine Mechanisms Underlying Cue-Elicited Compulsive Alcohol Seeking and Relapse"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Early Career Investigator Presentations
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Late-Breaking Topic
7:45 pm - 7:50 pm
Discussion
7:50 pm - 8:05 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
8:05 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm
Late-Breaking Topic
8:45 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:05 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair(s); Complete the GRC Evaluation Forms; Election of the Next Vice Chair(s)
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Catecholamine Systems, Synapses, and Neuromodulatory Mechanisms
9:00 am - 9:05 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:05 am - 9:25 am
"Distinguishing the Roles of Catecholamines Across Multiple Cognitive and Motivational Domains"
9:25 am - 9:35 am
Discussion
9:35 am - 9:55 am
"Corticonigral Projections Recruit Dopaminergic Neurons for Auditory Threat Learning"
9:55 am - 10:05 am
Discussion
10:05 am - 10:25 am
"Facilitating Striatal Plasticity with Salient Stimuli"
10:25 am - 10:35 am
Discussion
10:35 am - 11:10 am
Coffee Break
11:10 am - 11:30 am
"Evolving Views of a Special Relationship Between Neuromodulatory Neurons and the Integrated Stress Response"
11:30 am - 11:40 am
Discussion
11:40 am - 12:00 pm
"Cortical-Basal Ganglia-Thalamocortical Circuits and Reinforcement Learning"
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm
Discussion
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Catecholamines in Pain and Nociception
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
"Dopamine at the Intersection of Alcohol and Pain"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm
"An Amygdala-Accumbens Axis for Aversion to Pain"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm
"Dorsal Root Ganglion RGS4 Regulates Peripheral Nerve Injury-Associated Molecular and Behavioral Maladaptations in Murine Pain Models"
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm
"Endogenous Opioid Regulation of Locus Coeruleus-Mediated Analgesia"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure